{"id":506978,"date":"2022-07-20T09:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T04:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=506978"},"modified":"2022-07-20T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:03:54","slug":"delhi-metros-avg-daily-ridership-dropped-60-at-1-7-mn-in-2020-21-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-metros-avg-daily-ridership-dropped-60-at-1-7-mn-in-2020-21-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Metro&#8217;s avg daily ridership dropped 60% at 1.7 mn in 2020-21: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Metro clocked an average daily ridership of 17.10 lakh in 2020-21, down by over 60 per cent a year ago, the government has said.<\/p>\n<p>India, as did the rest of the world, witnessed near absolute immobility after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic with multiple lockdowns imposed across its cities to contain the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore in a written reply to a query in Rajya Sabha on Monday said that Delhi Metro&#8217;s average daily ridership in 2018-19 had stood at 45.44 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>The figures were 50.65 lakh for 2019-2020, according to the data he shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Metro clocked an average daily ridership of 17.10 lakh in 2020-21, down by over 60 per cent a year ago, the government has said. India, as did the rest of the world, witnessed near absolute immobility after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic with multiple lockdowns imposed across its cities to contain the virus. Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore in a written reply to a query in Rajya Sabha on Monday said that Delhi Metro&#8217;s average daily ridership in 2018-19 had stood at 45.44 lakh. The figures were 50.65 lakh for 2019-2020, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}